Predicted Planck extragalactic point-source catalogue

An estimation of the number and amplitude (in flux) of the extragalactic point sources that will be observed by the Planck Mission is presented in this paper. The study is based on the Mexican Hat wavelet formalism introduced by Cayon et al. Simulations at Planck observing frequencies are analysed, taking into account all the possible cosmological, Galactic and extragalactic emissions together with noise. With the technique used in this work, the Planck Mission will produce a catalogue of extragalactic point sources above the following flux values: 1.03 Jy (857 GHz), 0.53 Jy (545 GHz), 0.28 Jy (353 GHz), 0.24 Jy (217 GHz), 0.32 Jy (143 GHz), 0.41 Jy (100 GHz, high-frequency instrument), 0.34 Jy (100 GHz, low-frequency instrument), 0.57 Jy (70 GHz), 0.54 Jy (44 GHz) and 0.54 Jy (30 GHz), which are only slightly model dependent (see text). Amplitudes of these sources are estimated with errors below ∼15 per cent. Moreover, we also provide a complete catalogue (for the point-source simulations analysed) with errors in the estimation of the amplitude below ∼10 per cent. In addition we discuss the possibility of identifying different point-source populations in the Planck catalogue by estimating their spectral indices.

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